Contributor: The heat-safety law isn’t enough. Farmworkers are still dying every summer
By midmorning in the Central Valley, the light turns hard and white, bleaching the sky and flattening every shadow. The rows of melons stretch to…
Contributor: Unlike at Columbia, Trump’s attack on UCLA is aimed at taxpayer money
President Trump’s demand for a whopping $1-billion payment from UCLA sent shock waves through the UC system. For those of us on the inside, the…
Contributor: California must fight Texas’ redistricting fire with fire
It’s not a surprise that Donald Trump has pushed Texas Republicans to redraw congressional district lines to find five more GOP seats for the U.S.…
Contributor: Of course Trump wants to flex on D.C. Where are the Democrats to stop him?
Remember “I alone can fix it”? Donald Trump, who made that laughable statement in his 2016 convention acceptance speech, is now testing the theory in…
Contributor: Newsom’s cynical redistricting ploy should be rejected by voters
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political ambitions have reached a new low. In his efforts to look like a “fighter” ahead of a potential run for the…
Contributor: Welcome to American politics without norms
President Trump wants new congressional maps in Texas — now. Not in the next decade. Not after the next census. Not when it’s traditionally done.…
Contributor: The White House intends to slash the education safety net
Donald Trump has it in for public education.Don’t be fooled by last week’s release of DOE billions for the coming school year. Education Secretary Linda…
Contributor: Happy Gilmore, icon of conservative family values
Every recreational golfer of my generation has at least two things in common: We grew up revering Tiger Woods, and we know “Happy Gilmore,” the…
Contributor: The left should stop harping on men. That drives them to Trump
If you’re still looking for someone to blame for Donald Trump’s 2024 reelection, don’t just look at the usual suspects — the MAGA die-hards, the…
Contributor: Voters wouldn’t want such a big government if they had to pay for it
Having extended most of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and added even more tax breaks, Congress is once again punting on the central…
Al Jazeera contributor Ruwaida Amer speaks out about the Gaza famine
Al Jazeera contributor Ruwaida Amer speaks about her own struggle to survive the Israeli-engineered famine in Gaza. Source link
Contributor: I fled persecution in Iran. ICE enforcement here today reminds me of Tehran
As a Christian who smuggled Bibles into my home country of Iran, I became a target of the country’s Islamist regime, which imprisons and sometimes…
Contributor: Cane sugar Coke? Bringing back the Redskins? Trump’s little gripes serve a larger purpose
With the Jeffrey Epstein controversy still dogging him, President Trump has embraced his favorite distraction: the culture wars.It began when he announced that Coca-Cola was…
Contributor: Rethink sanctions. They’re killing as many people as war does
Broad economic sanctions, most of which are imposed by the U.S. government, kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people each year — disproportionately children. This…
Contributor: Trump’s Fed battle is not like his other political tussles
President Trump is once again floating the idea of firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, ostensibly in objection to excessively high interest rates. But this…
Contributor: Courts can protect trans healthcare by recognizing patient-physician privilege
Information, in the second Trump administration, is a currency of power and fear. Last week, Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi announced sweeping subpoenas targeting physicians and…
Contributor: Democrats are spiraling into irrelevance. Good riddance
It has been painfully obvious, ever since the presidential election last November, that the Democratic Party’s brand is in tatters.This week, a Quinnipiac University poll…
Contributor: If Haiti has become more violent, why end Haitians’ temporary protected status in the U.S.?
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced last month that temporary protected status for about 5,000 Haitians would end Sept. 2, five months earlier than planned.…
Contributor: Trump’s MAGA spell is broken. Even his base knows he is a lame duck
For an entire decade now, Donald Trump has been immune to alienating his supporters — a base so loyal they’d drink bleach if he told…
Contributor: Stunts in L.A. show Democratic states and cities that Trump’s forces can invade anytime
Early this month, the U.S. military and masked federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and from Customs and Border Protection invaded a park near…